Factors affecting physician professional satisfaction and their implications for patient care, health systems, and health policy

Media type: E-Book

Title: Factors affecting physician professional satisfaction and their implications for patient care, health systems, and health policy

Other titles: At head of title: Research Report,

Contributor: Friedberg, Mark W. [VerfasserIn]; Pham, Chau [VerfasserIn]; Quigley, Denise D. [VerfasserIn]; Pitchforth, Emma [VerfasserIn]; Aunon, Frances M. [VerfasserIn]; Crosson, Francis J. [VerfasserIn]; Caloyeras, John P. [VerfasserIn]; Van Busum, Kristin R. [VerfasserIn]; Tutty, Michael [VerfasserIn]; Chen, Peggy G. [VerfasserIn]; Brook, Robert Henry [VerfasserIn]; Mattke, Sören [VerfasserIn]

Corporation: American Medical Association ; RAND Health

imprint: Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp, 2013

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (150 pages)

Language: English

ISBN: 9780833082213; 0833082213; 9780833082206; 0833083627; 0833082205; 9780833083623

Keywords: Physicians United States Attitudes ; Physicians Job satisfaction United States ; Medical care United States Quality control ; Medicine Practice United States ; Physicians ; Medical care ; Medicine ; Job Satisfaction ; Quality of Health Care ; Professional Practice ; Electronic Health Records utilization ; Physicians psychology ; Electronic books ; Physicians ; Job satisfaction ; Medicine ; Practice ; Medical Professional Practice ; Medical care ; Quality control ; MEDICAL ; Evidence-Based Medicine ; Physicians ; Attitudes ; United States ; Health & Biological Sciences

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Footnote: "RR-439-AMA
"Produced within RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation
Includes bibliographical references

Description: One of the American Medical Association's core strategic objectives is to advance health care delivery and payment models that enable high-quality, affordable care and restore and preserve physician satisfaction. Such changes could yield a more sustainable and effective health care system with highly motivated physicians. To that end, the AMA asked RAND Health to characterize the factors that lead to physician satisfaction. RAND sought to identify high-priority determinants of professional satisfaction that can be targeted within a variety of practice types, especially as smaller and independent practices are purchased by or become affiliated with hospitals and larger delivery systems. Researchers gathered data from 30 physician practices in six states, using a combination of surveys and semistructured interviews. This report presents the results of the subsequent analysis, addressing such areas as physicians' perceptions of the quality of care, use of electronic health records, autonomy, practice leadership, and work quantity and pace. Among other things, the researchers found that physicians who perceived themselves or their practices as providing high-quality care reported better professional satisfaction. Physicians, especially those in primary care, were frustrated when demands for greater quantity of care limited the time they could spend with each patient, detracting from the quality of care in some cases. Electronic health records were a source of both promise and frustration, with major concerns about interoperability between systems and with the amount of physician time involved in data entry

One of the American Medical Association's core strategic objectives is to advance health care delivery and payment models that enable high-quality, affordable care and restore and preserve physician satisfaction. Such changes could yield a more sustainable and effective health care system with highly motivated physicians. To that end, the AMA asked RAND Health to characterize the factors that lead to physician satisfaction. RAND sought to identify high-priority determinants of professional satisfaction that can be targeted within a variety of practice types, especially as smaller and independent practices are purchased by or become affiliated with hospitals and larger delivery systems. Researchers gathered data from 30 physician practices in six states, using a combination of surveys and semistructured interviews. This report presents the results of the subsequent analysis, addressing such areas as physicians' perceptions of the quality of care, use of electronic health records, autonomy, practice leadership, and work quantity and pace. Among other things, the researchers found that physicians who perceived themselves or their practices as providing high-quality care reported better professional satisfaction. Physicians, especially those in primary care, were frustrated when demands for greater quantity of care limited the time they could spend with each patient, detracting from the quality of care in some cases. Electronic health records were a source of both promise and frustration, with major concerns about interoperability between systems and with the amount of physician time involved in data entry

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